In The Heart Of Darkness

Talking of failed democratic states and elections, the ironically named 'Democratic Republic of Congo' prepares for just its second general elections in four decades - when the citizens of this ever failing state come out with statements such as "the state is dying but not yet dead" or "the state is ever present but completely useless", or "when you are rock bottom, you can still dig deeper", you realise that not much is expected in this exercise of 'democracy'.

DR Congo - Compared with Europe.

 

This country is two thirds the size of Western Europe, with all the resources in land, mineral wealth and natural resources than you can point a pointy stick at, yet the Failed States Index lists it as fourth in the list of the critically failed category of states. 

 

When you read that Zoe Kabila, the current President's brother, ordered his Republican Guard escort to beat up two police traffic officers because they did not give his 4x4 priority, you can see that the words "free and fair" are not going to apply here ..... to elections or anything else.Given its size and resources the DR Congo should be a very prosperous country, but decades of war, military incompetence and brutality, corruption and absolute economic mismanagement have left it desperately poor.

This state truly is "The Heart Of Darkness"

The Heart of Darkness

A couple of small follow ups .....

Follow Up

Last week I discussed the shocking revelation, that a poll in South Africa showed that one in four men were rapists, and one in eight was a serial rapist. Well surprisingly, the 'wimmin' at the BBC, decided that being an African male was no longer an excuse for being a rapist, so there was a follow up story.

However, instead of finding one of the rapists who was proud of their attitude (the vast majority of them), and asking why? They found the one repentant 'rapist' in South Africa, and chronicled his 'apology' to the woman he had raped (she had since been raped on two other occasions). The wave of criminality that seems to accompany African males around the world is still a 'no no' subject, but maybe this is a start in addressing the fact that there is an issue.

Still in the enlightened continent, the burning of old people to death as witches, is still apparently a popular tribal sport in Kenya. This latest story describes the casual burning alive of five elderly men and women in Itii village, as witnessed by a BBC reporter.

The total silence by the PC brigade, and their spineless politicians, on the subject of these horrible murders, and similarly on the mass rape of South African women, is more damming than anything else I could say about the PC sickness that is corrupting Western moral values.